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The $2 million upgrade comes weeks after our report at Station 52 where we showed you how firefighters use pop cans as a back up system. They listen for the cans to fall off a 911 printer to know they had an emergency call.

Some firefighters documented they missed calls or were delayed.

In our first report, Fire Chief Dan Olsen told us there were zero missed or delayed calls due to firefighters using portable radios and other procedures.

We have not had any reports any of these stations that they are having delayed responses as a result of this or missed any responses," Chief Olsen said.

We showed Chief Olsen and Mayor Jean Stothert an OFD work order from April 30th, 2017, where firefighters at Station 23 said they missed an alarm.

The document stated, "the tone signal failed to alert us to a call."

You can hear 911 dispatch make several attempts to communicate with Engine 23.

Chief Olsen said Thursday he stated he was not made aware of any missed or delayed calls. Olsen and Mayor Jean Stothert said firefighters must not be following standard operating procedure.

"There is a back up that should have been followed and if they followed the back up they should not have missed the call," Mayor Stothert said.

"As a Fire Chief, I am always concerned if policies are not being followed and we have a plan in place," Olsen said. "Assistant Chiefs are looking into some of things we are talking about here."

Chief Olsen said they are always looking at ways to improve policies.

The Mayor and Chief said even with the new digital upgrade, they will still have back up systems in place, in case the fire alerting station system fails.

However, they will not allow pop can alarms to be used, since it is not part of the policy.

The new system is expected to be up and running at all 24 fire stations within six months.